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Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices

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Re: Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices

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Re: Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices

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post #52

> This launch marks a major milestone in our commitment to the Linux community and the Arm ecosystem. So does Chrome finally hardware accelerates You Tube on GNU/Linux, and supports WebGPU, just like on Android/Linux and ChromeOS/Linux?

No, it will not. At least for now.

Re: Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices

#74
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have more faith in Raspberry Pi's own patched build of Chromium to do hardware acceleration properly on the Pi than I would have in Google's generic Chrome build.

But as far as i know, there has never been working HW accelerated video in their build of Chromium. But yeah, I guess you have point.

If enough people ask Broadcom to do VA-API on their platforms getting that enabled on Chromium shouldn't be too hard. The caveat is that codec support is limited (no VP8/VP9/AV1).

Re: Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices

#75

Wait... weren't there many ARM Chromebooks already?

Sure, and when I worked at Google on Chromecast there was also that build of Chromium. All of that is very different from The G actually providing a packaged official Chrome build, though. Which for some reason they couldn't be bothered to do before (Firefox exists though)

Brave exists on arm64, too!

Re: Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices

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> We’re excited to announce that Google will launch Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices in Q2 2026

> Users with other Linux distributions can also install the ARM64 version of Chrome by visiting chrome.com/download.

You had one job, press release person!

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